Presents a collection of essays that examines Asian American literature from the late 19th century up through the contemporary experimental drama of Ping Chong. This book addresses the work of writers with Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, East Indian, and Pacific Island ancestry.
Presents a collection of essays that examines Asian American literature from the late 19th century up through the contemporary experimental drama of P...
States that the Asian American woman playwright is compelled 'to mine her soul' and express the angst, fear, and rage that oppression has wrought while maintaining her relationship with America as a good citizen. This work portrays Asian and Asian American women who challenge the cultural and sexual stereotypes of the Asian female.
States that the Asian American woman playwright is compelled 'to mine her soul' and express the angst, fear, and rage that oppression has wrought whil...
This collection of evocative personal testimonies by three generations of Hmong refugees is the first to describe their lives in Laos as slash-and-burn farmers, as refugees after a Communist government came to power in 1975, and as immigrants in the United States. Reflecting on the homes left behind, their narratives chronicle the difficulties of forging a new identity.
From Jou Yee Xiong's Life Story: "I stopped teaching my sons many of the Hmong ways because I felt my ancestors and I had suffered enough already. I thought that teaching my children the old ways would only...
This collection of evocative personal testimonies by three generations of Hmong refugees is the first to describe their lives in Laos as slash-and-...
Dramatizes the resourcefulness, cunning, and pain of the Filipino peasants' struggle against a heritage of colonization, first by Spain and later by the United States. This title is set during the political upheavals of the 1940s and 1950s.
Dramatizes the resourcefulness, cunning, and pain of the Filipino peasants' struggle against a heritage of colonization, first by Spain and later by t...
Filipino Americans are the second largest group of Asian Americans as well as the second largest immigrant group in the United States. This collection reflects on their lives, which represent the diversity of the immigrant experience and their narratives are a way to understand ethnic identity and Filipino American history.
Filipino Americans are the second largest group of Asian Americans as well as the second largest immigrant group in the United States. This collection...
In this pathbreaking volume, Velina Hasu Houston gathers together eleven plays that speak in the hybridized, unique American voices of Asian descent -- and often dissent. These writers resist the bigotry that attempts to target them solely as people of color as well as the homogenizing tendencies of a multiculturalism that fails to recognize the varied make-up of Asian America. Anthologized for the first time, these plays testify to the rich complexity of Asian American experience while they also demonstrate the different styles and thematic concerns of the individual playwrights. What...
In this pathbreaking volume, Velina Hasu Houston gathers together eleven plays that speak in the hybridized, unique American voices of Asian descent -...
Contains eleven plays that speak in the 'hybridized, unique American voices of Asian descent and often dissent.' This title features plays that testify to the rich complexity of Asian-American experience. It also demonstrates the different styles and thematic concerns of the individual playwrights.
Contains eleven plays that speak in the 'hybridized, unique American voices of Asian descent and often dissent.' This title features plays that testif...
Tells us about the complex social and political issues depicted by Asian-American playwrights. In this title, the author argues that playwrights produce a different conception of Asian-America in accordance with their unique set of sensibilities.
Tells us about the complex social and political issues depicted by Asian-American playwrights. In this title, the author argues that playwrights produ...
